Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Less than 200 0oO OF inc i-'
900 heather women in INDIA can re'''
Cardinal Manning has been pro
,,oted ia tho vice-presidency OF tne
London Newspaper Fund
A profit of eight million HORNS
was netted by the national library "
Austria Hungary last year.
"A line was let down into an OK
tipct crater at Molokai, Sandwich Isl
ands. distance of three thousand I'VE
bnndred feet without reaching bottom
Onto. in South America, is the
only city in the world on the Equator
and the sun rises and sets there At siA
o'clock the year round.-M T. VIZ
ness.
-Derm uk is known as reinarka'
bly level country. Surveys OF last sea
son find only two points in the KING
dom that reach an elevation OF iVe
hundred and forty fcet.-G)tde" h"Se'
A Glasgow yacht, destined fol
perch fishing in South Australian wa
ters has been fitted with electrical APP
paratus expected to light up the water
to the great depth of seventeen faith
om'.
Cyprus is proving to Great Britain
an expensive luxury. because although
he income from revenue rises some
| $500, 900 above expenses, something
over $50, 900 has to be paid annually
as n subvention to Turkey. - Congregd-
| honaltst.
In a Liverpool cigar factory, where
one thousand girls are employed, a lire
brigade. composed of the operatives,
has been organic ii. The girls are
well oiliccred and drilled, and at re-
cent blaze n the factory did efficient
service in subdung the hames.-M o.
Times Democrat.
The project of connecting ltaiy
with Sicily by sub marine tunnel Is
acain discuss 81. The estimated cost
of the work is over fourteen millions OF
dollars. The depth of the sea along
the proposed line is over five hnndre
feet. The length of the tunnel would
probably not exceed five miles. N. T..
Lcdger.
-Bunvlu Nanjo, now professor OF
Sanskrit at Toxic, has been sent by his
monastery on scientific and religious
mission to India. He went to Oxford,
some years ago, to study Slnskrit nm
der Prof Max Muller, and received the
honorable degree of M. A, on leaving
England He is the auther of several
learned works on Buddhism.
One of the newest and best of the
many circus in Paris has just
brought out an old productions
Spanish fair with all its adjunc.s, its
beggars, its mandolinlsts, its peasants
and merchants in costume, its audi
ences and songs, and, to crown all, its
bull fight. This is one of the mos
amusing and picturesque spectacle'
+ seen in Paris for may years.
The monks of St. Bernard, wht
devoted themselves rs arlently to the
stUdy Of science as to the rescue o
f wayfaring men, have brought the tele
phone into their service Of mercy. The
famous hosp.ce is now in telephone
, communication with the Ctntinc d.
PROF. and the villa re of S Pierre, a.
also with the Cantiuc d. Fontinte ant
The villag of St. Chemy, on the 1tal
ian side. Brootlna Eagle.
Mrs Horny Woods grave is il
. Hjghgate Cemetery, near those o
| George Eliot, Parepa Rosa, Fredcri
: Maurice, George Vandenhoh, H. Crab
t Robinson, Alar.c A. Watts, Lor,
) I.yndhurst, and the father, mothe
and little daughter OF Charles ID ok
= ems. Near by. also, is the tomb o
Wombwell, the famous menageri
= Snowman, surmcuntcd by q full-size(
f lion in marble Boston Bulget.
e Some odd residents have arrive
i at the Paris 100. They include a three
e striped paradoXure from milan;
Y Scoops owl, captured ut sea near Alden
y u vhite-frontel heron, from Austria
: ia; Stanley parakeet, from Yves
e Australia; Burmeister's cariamG
! Southwest Brazil; black sternothert
n from West Africa, received in c,
{, change and two SHOWS. The "smews
It slightly troubled us, but the parade,
;. IRE, the Scoops owl, the black sternC
+ there, and the Brmeister's cariam
II puzzle us entirely Chicago Times.